Rural school districts throughout the country face increasing challenges with recruiting and retaining beginning teachers due to job demands that include a lack of mentoring, lower salaries than their urban and suburban counterparts, geographic isolation, requirements to take on additional nonteaching duties, and teaching assignments that include…

This study uses state-level staffing data to analyze the five-year career trajectories of all 231 first-year secondary science teachers in New Jersey who began teaching during the 2010-2011 school year. The person-position framework for studying teacher retention is introduced in this analysis, and the authors present a case for the importance of…

Instructional coaching is a way to support classroom teachers in their efforts to provide high quality instruction across academic content areas. Because of beginner teachers' needs for extra support, many districts are now embracing instructional coaches to provide specific pedagogical feedback to their beginning teachers via job-embedded,…

When there's a revolving door of staff members in a school or district, leaders have three choices: leave, survive, or thrive. District administrator Elizabeth Dampf says it's possible to thrive despite--or even because of--high rates of turnover. If you want more out of this period in education, take a few cues from Dampf's "playbook of…

The purpose of this study is to understand how beginning teachers' self-efficacy changes after working with a mentor in Mountain West School District as a response to the problem of increasing teacher attrition rates. Social cognitive theory is used to explain the impacts on beginning teachers' self-efficacy. Using a qualitative phenomenological…

Teachers are among the most critical stakeholders within the school community. Effective teachers are needed to provide students with a quality education and to prepare them for success both in and out of the classroom (Miller et al., 2020). Almost half of all teachers leave the profession within their first five years of teaching. In Florida, 40%…

The purpose of this qualitative interpretive inquiry was to describe the experiences of early career, elementary teachers working in high-need schools in New York City (NYC). This study examined teachers' experiences in the workplace and how their experiences contributed to their feelings of self-efficacy and intent to remain in their high-need…

In this research, I investigated the social support networks of four novice elementary teachers. Data were obtained through one-on-one interviews, egocentric social network map creation, and observations. Though the four teachers had varying levels of satisfaction, at the completion of their second year of teaching, all four expressed intent to…

This first years of teaching constitute entry stage to the profession and are considered a period of critical importance for determining the new teacher's professional identity. This study explores the associations between novice teachers' perspectives of their relationship with their mentors and their professional commitment. This qualitative…

This phenomenological inquiry explores how moments of doubt and professional tension can prompt early-career teachers to question not only the stability of their teaching identity but also their desire to remain in the teaching profession. In light of these findings, the philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre is employed to reinterpret the construct of…

The attrition rate of early career teachers is high. In fact, the government spends $2 billion annually to replace teachers in the first five years of their tenure (Alliance for Excellent Education, 2005). The purpose of this dissertation is two-fold: 1) to test the relationship between purpose, psychological well-being, and affective commitment…

Even with the best preparation, it is undeniable that novice teachers must gain significant knowledge and skills on the job. Induction programs are shown to be beneficial in mitigating the transition between preparation and practice for novice teachers and help to further prepare teachers, during their first years in the classroom (Ingersoll &…

Public schools are facing difficulty finding teachers to fill vacancies. This may be due to many factors, including the shrinking number of college students pursuing education majors, increased accountability measures, heightened demands from parents who are pursuing college entry for their children, stagnant or shrinking wages, and high-stakes…

Nationwide there is a teacher shortage crisis. This study underscored the urgency of addressing teacher attrition, specifically among novice teachers in Connecticut. It explored the lived experiences of school administrators guided by theoretical frameworks such as the two-factor theory, human capital theory, resiliency theory, and…

Mobilising urban early-career teachers to commonly perceived 'under-resourced' and 'challenging' rural schools has become an approach to address the rural teacher shortage and improve rural teacher quality. However, the demographic change often requires mobile rural-early career teachers (MR-ECTs) better prepare for a different educational…